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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409417" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Discoverer Of The North Cape. A Leaf From King Alfred's Orosius. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Othere, the old sea-captain,<br>Who dwelt in Helgoland,<br>To King Alfred, the Lover of Truth,<br>Brought a snow-white walrus-tooth,<br>Which he held in his brown right hand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His figure was tall and stately,<br>Like a boy's his eye appeared;<br>His hair was yellow as hay,<br>But threads of a silvery gray<br>Gleamed in his tawny beard. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hearty and hale was Othere,<br>His cheek had the color of oak;<br>With a kind of laugh in his speech,<br>Like the sea-tide on a beach,<br>As unto the King he spoke. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Alfred, King of the Saxons,<br>Had a book upon his knees,<br>And wrote down the wondrous tale<br>Of him who was first to sail<br>Into the Arctic seas. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So far I live to the northward,<br>No man lives north of me;<br>To the east are wild mountain-chains;<br>And beyond them meres and plains;<br>To the westward all is sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So far I live to the northward,<br>From the harbor of Skeringes-hale,<br>If you only sailed by day,<br>With a fair wind all the way,<br>More than a month would you sail. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I own six hundred reindeer,<br>With sheep and swine beside;<br>I have tribute from the Finns,<br>Whalebone and reindeer-skins,<br>And ropes of walrus-hide. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I ploughed the land with horses,<br>But my heart was ill at ease,<br>For the old seafaring men<br>Came to me now and then,<br>With their sagas of the seas;-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Of Iceland and of Greenland,<br>And the stormy Hebrides,<br>And the undiscovered deep;--<br>Oh I could not eat nor sleep<br>For thinking of those seas. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'To the northward stretched the desert,<br>How far I fain would know;<br>So at last I sallied forth,<br>And three days sailed due north,<br>As far as the whale-ships go. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'To the west of me was the ocean,<br>To the right the desolate shore,<br>But I did not slacken sail<br>For the walrus or the whale,<br>Till after three days more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The days grew longer and longer,<br>Till they became as one,<br>And northward through the haze<br>I saw the sullen blaze<br>Of the red midnight sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And then uprose before me,<br>Upon the water's edge,<br>The huge and haggard shape<br>Of that unknown North Cape,<br>Whose form is like a wedge. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The sea was rough and stormy,<br>The tempest howled and wailed,<br>And the sea-fog, like a ghost,<br>Haunted that dreary coast,<br>But onward still I sailed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Four days I steered to eastward,<br>Four days without a night:<br>Round in a fiery ring<br>Went the great sun, O King,<br>With red and lurid light.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here Alfred, King of the Saxons,<br>Ceased writing for a while;<br>And raised his eyes from his book,<br>With a strange and puzzled look,<br>And an incredulous smile. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Othere, the old sea-captain,<br>He neither paused nor stirred,<br>Till the King listened, and then<br>Once more took up his pen,<br>And wrote down every word. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And now the land,' said Othere,<br>'Bent southward suddenly,<br>And I followed the curving shore<br>And ever southward bore<br>Into a nameless sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And there we hunted the walrus,<br>The narwhale, and the seal;<br>Ha! 't was a noble game!<br>And like the lightning's flame<br>Flew our harpoons of steel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There were six of us all together,<br>Norsemen of Helgoland;<br>In two days and no more<br>We killed of them threescore,<br>And dragged them to the strand!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here Alfred the Truth-Teller<br>Suddenly closed his book,<br>And lifted his blue eyes,<br>With doubt and strange surmise<br>Depicted in their look. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Othere the old sea-captain<br>Stared at him wild and weird,<br>Then smiled, till his shining teeth<br>Gleamed white from underneath<br>His tawny, quivering beard. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to the King of the Saxons,<br>In witness of the truth,<br>Raising his noble head,<br>He stretched his brown hand, and said,<br>'Behold this walrus-tooth!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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Who dwelt in Helgoland,
To King Alfred, the Lover of Truth,
Brought a snow-white walrus-tooth,
Which he held in his brown right hand. 

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Like a boy's his eye appeared;
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